Celebrate WOMEN - It's Women's History Month

Women's History Month is the perfect time to celebrate the accomplishments of women writers, but it's also important to remember famous heroines, who have played such a major role in our literature. Read more about the writers, and then discover some of our most unforgettable female characters.

Here are a few quotes:

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." - Anaïs Nin
  
  
• "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad
  
  
• "I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves." - Mary Wollstonecraft
  
  
• "And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love..." Erica Jong

Discover more resources for the month of March (Women's History Month... and beyond)!

• Famous Fictional Heroines
• Women Writers & Famous Heroines
• Women's History - Jone Johnson Lewis
• A Woman Young and Old - William Butler Yeats
• The Rights of Women - Anna Laetitia Aikin (Barbauld)
• Vindication on the Rights of Women - Mary Wollstonecraft
• On the Education of Women - Daniel Defoe
• We As Women
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Herland
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Read more about the characters and writers in literary history.



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